Device for marking or cutting cloth on the bias.



No. 827,233. BATENTED JULY 31, 1906.

s. GOULD.

' DEVICE FOR MARKING OR CUTTING CLOTH ON THE BIAS. v

APPLICATION FILED Junn'lo, 1904.

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f STELLA GOULD, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; DEVICE CFQRMABKING on CUTTINGHCLOTH .ou THEBIAS.

Specification of Letters Patent. 1 Application fil d June 10,1904. Serial No. 211,94

Patented July 31, 19cc.v

To dZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, S ELLA GOULD, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Marking or Cutting Cloth on the Bias, of which the following is a specification.

Relating, as my invention does, to such mechanisms, its object is to provide a device for marking or cutting cloth on the. bias which shall be simple and economical in construction and very. easy and effective in operation. I 1

It consists, in its more important features, in a rule for marking or cutting the cloth, having a guide secured to the rule at the same angle as that between the selvage or edge of the cloth and the desired line of cutting, and the same, togetherwith a gage, to indicate the width of the strips to be cut.

My invention consists, further, in the novel features of construction and arrangement and novel comblnatlons of arts hereinafter described, and pointed out 1n the claim.

My invention is prefer ably embodied in the followin -described mechanism, and its purpose is t ereby attained.

Inthe accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which like parts are designated by the same reference characters in all the views, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved bias cloth marker or cutter. Fig. 2 is a detail view in perspective of the connected ends of one of the rules and one of the gages to illustrate the manner in which such ends are mitered for the pur-. pose hereinafter mentioned, and Fig. 3 is an elevation representing'the edge of one of the rules.

Two rules A and B, having, respectively, the straight edges a and-b, are at their ends connected together by the parallel gages C and D, having the longitudinal slots E, in which are adapted to' move the ins F on the upper side and at the ends 0 the rule B.

These pins are screw-threaded and are provided with the binding-nuts G, by which the rule B may be clamped in a desired position on the gages C and D. The gages have each a graduation or scale H, as shown, by which the rule B may be adjusted parallel with the rule A and at such distance therefrom as to cut strips of cloth of a desired width. This graduation is preferably such asto measure distances between the straight edges 0. and b A and B are clamped at an angle of forty-five degrees to the gages.

Therule A is pivotally connected at I with the gage D and is'also pivotally connected with the other gage C by the screw-threaded pin K, having the binding-nut L, by which the rule A and the gage C may be clamped together. By means of these various pivotal connections the device may be folded together for convenience in carrying and storage, and by the binding-nuts the rules and gages may be clamped at various angles as desired. a

The rules A and B are provided on their under sides with means M for pressing into the cloth in order to hold the same from slipping or stretching while being marked or out. These projections may be sharp enough and lon enou h to pierce several thicknesses of clot so t at a number of, bias strips may be cut atonce.

in inches and fractions thereof when the rules The ends of the rules and gages, or at least forty-five egrees, as shown by their mitered 1 connected ends. The binding-nuts G are then adjusted to clamp the rule B to the gages C and D in such position that the straight edge I) will aline with the graduationpoint for three inches on each gage. The device is then laid on the cloth N, as shown 1n Fi 1, so that the outer, edge of the gage C 'wi l aline with the selvage or edge 0 of the cloth, the gage C thus operating as a guide for the proper placing of the device on the cloth to cut the same at the proper angle. If the device is thus placedand so that the straight edge a will coincide with the position indicated by the line marked P as a place of beginning, the line P may be drawn by a pencil or marker along the straight edge a. The device is then moved along the cloth in the direction of the arrow, the outer edge of the gage C still alining with the edge 0 of the cloth untilthe straight edge I) coincides with repeated, the straight edge I) belng placed each time on the line previously drawn along the straight edge a, and thus the cloth will be marked into a number of bias strips each three inches Wide. The lines P and Q thus represent lines drawn along the straight edge a at previous settings of the device and before moving the same into the position shown in Fig. 1. When the lines are marked in the manner described, the cloth may be cut by shears on these lines, or it is apparent that instead of marking the cloth at all it may be cut along the straight edge a With a knife or rotary cutter. It Will be seen that the proj ections M prevent the cloth from slippin or stretching under the rule While being mar ed or cut.

My invention being capable of varying embodiments, I do not confine myself to the eX- act mechanism hereinbefore described further than as set forth in the claim.

I claim- The combination in a bias cutting and may assume such an angle to the gages thattheir mitered ends shall coincide with the sides of the gages, the rule B having clamping-screws at each end adapted to slide in the said longitudinal slots substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two attesting Witnesses.

STELLA GOULD.

Witnesses:

D. FLETCHER HAYMES, ESTELLE M. HARROLD. 

